Textropolis is a word based game where the player must travel to various cities, finding as many four letter or more words they can using letters in the city name (Eg. Amsterdam– star, master etc). The more words you find, the higher the population of that city, and overall the world, grows.

As this is a word based game, the only controls needed are to choose letters and cities. Tap the screen as you would any other iPhone application to make your selections. You can get bonuses for more complex words with multipliers for each letter, so a 9 letter word will get you more points than a 4 letter word.

The visuals are simple but pleasing nonetheless. Planes fly past with a description of each word you find and as you discover words and increase the population, more people walk around in the background. There is no soundtrack, but players have the option to use their iPod as the games music. There are currently no leaderboards or highscore options, but who’s to stop you passing your iPhone around in a group of friends for some team gameplay?

This is a very simple game but a fantastic brain teaser that you can play anywhere from 1 minute to 1 hour. The number of levels and words in each level will never leave you bored. And along with the challenging gameplay, the ‘Nimblebit loves you’ message on the title screen will always have you coming back for more.